Google Docs
Google Docs document automation
Google Docs on Tiny Command treats a Doc as a structured target for both reads and writes. Two triggers (Document Created and Document Updated) fire from Drive's change notification feed scoped to the documents the connected Google account has access to. Five actions cover the surface: Create Document (a new blank or templated Doc, returned with its document ID and editor URL), Get Document (returns the document body as a structural tree of paragraphs, tables, and runs), Append Text (adds text to the end with optional styling — the simplest write), Replace Text (find-and-replace, which is the templating workhorse — fill {{placeholders}} in a templated Doc with workflow data), and Update Document (the batched-requests API for inserting at specific indexes, formatting ranges, or modifying tables). The Drive trigger latency is typically 5–30 seconds. Edits inside the document body emit Document Updated; renames and permission changes also emit it, so a downstream filter is needed if the workflow only cares about content changes.
Workflows start when Google Docs does.
2 real-time triggers, each backed by a webhook subscription. Events arrive within seconds and you don't have to set up polling.
Fires when a new Doc is created in Drive that the connected account can see. Useful for "every new design doc → post to design-channel Slack" or "auto-add new docs to a tracking sheet" workflows.
Fires on any change — body edit, title rename, permission change, comment added. For body-only workflows, follow up with Get Document and compare against the previous revision's plain-text hash to filter out non-content changes.
Do anything Google Docs can do, from a workflow.
Every action accepts dynamic inputs from upstream nodes, whether that's an AI output, a form field, or a search result.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Append Text to Doc | Adds text to the end of a Doc with optional styling. For "daily standup note → append today's update to the weekly notes doc" patterns. |
| Create Google Doc | Creates a blank Doc. For templated content creation, the standard pattern is Copy a template via Google Drive's Copy File action, then run Replace Text to fill {{placeholders}}. |
| Get Google Doc | Returns the doc as a structural tree (paragraphs, tables, runs). For "extract plain text" workflows, walk the tree and concatenate textRun content. For structured workflows, preserve the tree for round-tripping back into the doc. |
| Replace Text in Doc | Find-and-replace across the doc. The templating workhorse — fill {{customer_name}} placeholders in a templated Doc with workflow data. For multi-replace workflows, batch via Update Document for efficiency. |
| Update Google Doc (Batch) | Batched-requests API for inserting at specific indexes, formatting ranges, modifying tables. For "insert images at this position" or "format this paragraph as a heading" workflows that go beyond simple text replacement. |
Pre-built Google Docs workflows.
Clone any recipe and customize it in one click. Every recipe is fully editable.
Three things worth knowing.
Tiny Command counts a run the moment a trigger fires. Filtering early means only matching events spend your usage budget.
Connect Google Docs once and every workflow on your account can use its triggers and actions. You don't have to re-auth per workflow.
Every Google Docs field shows up in the visual picker for downstream nodes. The raw payload is there for power users, optional for everyone else.
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